Unfortunately, Whitmire is right; he has managed to fool Hispanics for over 50 years. Pendajos.
In particular, John Whitmire and his dwarfs at court, but the same thing happened under Annise Parker with her selling of the sewage fee increase. They take from the poor to give to the rich or their pet projects. Meanwhile, things keep getting worse for those people who, whatever misfortune contributed to their failure to be White and privileged.
The following is from an article in the Houston Chronicle:
Houston doesn’t need a $5 trash fee on 380,000 households. It needs a One Clean Houston fee that matches the scale of the problem and builds upon the well intentioned, but inadequate pilot program started three years ago.
The Rice Kinder 2023 survey shows 67% of residents support a $10 monthly garbage fee. Instead of charging only solid waste customers, the city should levy a $10 monthly Clean City fee on all 1.1 million individual water utility customers, raising roughly $132 million annually. In fact, that’s what the city’s own solid waste study recommended.
Let that sink in: a fee charged to all 1.1 million individual water utility customers. It makes sense, but the mayor, who happens to be White, does not want to upset his MAGA supporters and his upper-income liberal white supporters, so let us shaft the Black and Brown folks primarily. They don’t vote, and even if they do, we will send our little bought black and brown politicians to push the fee as the best way to get their garbage and trash picked up on time.
A promise from most, if not all, politicians is only as good until the election is over.
Black and Brown neighborhoods bear the brunt of the stealing of much-needed funds for those communities to pay for more police and fire. Is Whitmire really making Houston safer?
Sewage and what Houston promised the courts:
Five years into a landmark 2021 federal consent decree requiring Houston to fix its sewage system, a new independent engineering review commissioned by Bayou City Waterkeeper finds that progress is falling short of what residents need and what the law requires. The findings were presented today to Houston City Council.
The review, authored by Kevin Draganchuk, P.E. of CEA Engineers, assessed all available consent decree compliance reporting. The results reveal a combination of delays, missing data, and a transparency gap that makes independently verifying whether Houston is on track to meet its legal obligations difficult to discern by city council, community members, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
WHAT THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW FOUND
Five of the nine neighborhoods the city itself identified as its highest-priority “capacity-constrained areas” — places with the worst chronic sewage overflow records — remain in the design phase five years in. Only one of those five has seen construction begin on the fixes the decree requires.
But Whitmire is stealing money needed for those projects for his pet projects. Shaft the Black and Brown people. Whitmire will send our little bought black and brown politicians to push the fee as the best way to get their garbage and trash picked up on time.
As Bill King stated in one of his articles, why aren’t the police solving more crimes?
But here is what really galls me: In 2025, more than 2,000 sexual offenses were reported to HPD. Most of these were rapes. Of that number, HPD cleared 324 cases, barely one in six. As a result, almost 1,700 victims of sexual offenses saw no justice. By the way, neither did 138 homicide victims, 44 human trafficking victims, over 40,000 assault victims, over 200 abduction victims, or over 4,000 robbery victims.
… The City of Houston faces enormous challenges. Its finances are a mess. It has been in violation of the Clean Water Act for years. Its water system is antiquated and leaks millions of gallons each year. The streets look like something astronauts would photograph on the far side of the moon. We have barely begun to solve our flooding problems. Garbage collection has been a problem for decades. I could go on.
But these problems are hard. They will take work and tough choices to solve. It is much easier to spend your time posturing, in preparation to run for your next political office, than to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work.
Whitmire did not roll up his sleeves; he instead is doing what a man whose entire life has been spent lying to people to get re-elected as a politician does. He found that he could steal from the poor to make himself and his political buddies look good.
Houston Flooding
